The Price of Seeing

Price of Seeing” [Verse 1] Took the blindfold off, thought it’d set me free Now I read the room like a tragedy Every easy smile got a seam I can trace Every borrowed line, every rehearsed face [Pre-Chorus] I tell myself I’m wrong, I’m just too aware Swear I’m making shadows out of empty air But the mask slips once and it’s burned in my mind — Can’t go back to blind, can’t go back to blind [Chorus] It’s the curse of seeing, the weight of the true Stare into the dark and the dark stares too I know too much, so I stand alone Clarity’s a country with no way home And the quiet’s not peace, it’s the cost of the view — The price of seeing is losing you [Verse 2] Confidence like paper, I can hear it tear Motives underneath every “I’m right here” I fought all the monsters, kept my hands so clean Woke up in the mirror as the thing I’d seen [Pre-Chorus] They say “you’re overreacting, you’re going insane” So I nod and go silent — but I still remain Still counting the tells, still marking the lies, Still awake behind these too-open eyes [Chorus] It’s the curse of seeing, the weight of the true Stare into the dark and the dark stares too I know too much, so I stand alone Clarity’s a country with no way home And the quiet’s not peace, it’s the cost of the view — The price of seeing is losing you [Bridge] Turin, in the street, a man held a horse and wept — Maybe that’s the moment the seeing turns to depth You look away from the monster, look back at your own face, Or the abyss keeps your reflection in its place [Final Chorus] So I carry the seeing, I carry it alone A lighthouse of a mind on a coast made of stone If truth is a fire then I’m warm and undone — The price of seeing is the seeing goes on ---